Description: Examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.

Description: The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

Description: Death is real, it comes without warning and it cannot be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching in the Buddhist cultures of the Himalayas. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part series explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom.

Description: This filmed classic takes us on a journey into the alchemical renaissance of King Frederick V and his wife Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. It shows us the early attempt at the creation of an alchemical kingdom actually lead to the European Renaissance and the institution of Cartesian science and the beginnings of rationalism within the western mindset.

Description: This is a 1984 BBC documentary looking at the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics including Fermat’s Last Theorem (since solved), Goldbach’s conjecture, The Riemann hypothesis, and the P=NP Problem. Featuring interviews with many modern mathematicians, this documentary also looks at the history of maths and some of if it’s major players from Euclid to Bertrand Russell.

Description: This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. The text is the only record of work by one of the world’s greatest minds – the ancient Greek, Archimedes – a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time.

Description: Nova checks in to see how the multi-decade restoration of the Parthenon is going. They find the restorers dealing with a massive jigsaw puzzle with pieces that are only slightly different, many of which are broken or missing, and the remaining pieces were reassembled wrong by the last restoration team.

Description: A look at fractal geometry, and how it is found just about everywhere in everything, and how the mathematics of fractals can be used to model and measure such things as mountains, coastlines, telephone line noise and heart rhythm.

Description: Documentary by filmmaker Kevin Hinchey, contains archival film and still photos. Made in collaboration with Mary Higgins, Director of the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust and The Wilhelm Reich Museum, it is an introduction to the life and work of a courageous physician-scientist.

Description: The mysterious and centuries-old Voynich Manuscript was written by an unknown author, illustrated with bizarre, puzzling pictures and composed in a language that even the best cryptographers can’t decode. Now, Naked Science follows new leads in the hunt for the author’s identity.

(Also in case you didn’t know every single one of these links is downloadable on savevid.com, because who knows how long they will stay up?)

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A bunch more alt truth documentaries:

“The Corporation” – How corporations dominate our society, and did a lot of business with the nazis during ww2.

“Money Masters” – An academic approach to the history of money and banking. From sticks being used as money in England, to the rothschild family.

“inside job” – the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption.

“Enron the smartest guys in the room” – A great doc about all the crazy stuff the enron guys did, created energy trading, lied on the accounting forms. And some how Lou Pai got out with 100s of millions of dollars, and at one point owned half the land in colorado.

“Dogs decoded” – I never knew how interesting dogs were, they actually think like humans, and prefer humans over other dogs.

“The Life of Buddha (BBC)” – Buddha had a crazy life, started as a king, traveled around, but eventually found nirvana under a tree meditating.

“The pyramid code” – The modern story of the Pyramids is wrong, they were over 10,000 years old and may have had higher technology built into them.

“Richard Feynman – The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out” Great interview with the greatest physics teacher in our generation.

“Free Water, a short video by Andrew Brown” (short video) – This guy makes gardens in a city in arizona and only uses rain water from the street.

“Chechnya the Dirty War” & “Putin’s Hidden War – Chechnya” – The world is a giant geopolitical chess match, and the allegiances of little countries go back an forth, and they when do a lot of people die.

“John Perkins ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ Extended Interview” – A look inside how the CIA and american corporations topple foreign governments and have them go into debt to pay multinational corporations to develop their country at the cost of their native people and their resources.

“A History of GOD” – The modern christian god is just a rehashing of the ancient egyptian god horus, or I forget if they mention that in this doc, put they talk about how originally the Christian/Jewish god was just one god among many, the god of war, but then slowly over time things turned into monotheism.

“Eugene Mallove Interview – 1998” (on cold fusion) – Cold fusion works, but a lot of people with a lot of money don’t want it to get out.

“John E. Mack, M.D. – Transcending the Dualistic Mind” & “Experiencers – John Mack” & “John E Mack about the Dalai Lama’s views about UFOs and aliens” (short video) – Dr Mack was a harvard psychiatrist who earlier won the pulitzer prize, then he started to get a lot of patients who claimed to have experiences of being abducted by aliens.

“Adolf Hitler – The greatest story Never told !” This is the story of Adolf Hitler as if the Nazis had won the war, or not exactly, but it paints him in a good light, and Allies in a bad light. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. No excuse for killing the jews, but at the same time, in the US we were killing native americans and blacks.

“Nazis – The Occult Conspiracy” – The nazis were extremely into the occult.

“Aleister Crowley – The Wickedest Man In The World” – If anyone took the occult the furthest it was Aleister Crowley, a crazy story if you have never heard it. People think this guy started all the secret societies, at one time he hung around with Jack Parsons and a bunch of other scientists at JPL. Not sure if that is mentioned in this doc though.

“Isaac Newton – The Last Magician (BBC Documentary)” – Some people think that Newton was just a mainstream western christian scientist, that couldn’t be further from the truth, he was a hardcore alchemist and occultist.

“Queen Elizabeth’s Magician -John Dee (2002)” – John Dee was the greatest alchemist in the history, and invented something ships used to navigate the seas, and was a top advisor to the queen. He also invented some weird language, and did wife swaps.

“Astronomical Alchemy: The Origin of the Elements” (mainstream western science, not alchemy) – How all the elements besides hydrogen and helium are created in super nova.

“Leonardo da Vinci – The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything”(said in comments) – Took 30 years to paint the mona lisa, Da vinci invented so much stuff, but by the time we found out about it, 300 years later, it has already been invented again. He did autopsies in secret and found out a lot of stuff.

“Cult Leader Thinks He’s Jesus ” (Vissarion – vice) – There is this cult leader who claims to be Jesus, this documentary really has me wondering, what is the difference between this guy claiming to be the son of god now and the ‘real’ Jesus 2000 years ago claiming it? If there are a billion christians who believe the son of god lived 2000 years ago, is it really that crazy to support this guy?

“Bra Boys” (narrated by Russell Crowe) – good surfing documentary I’ve ever seen about a surfing gang in Australia

“[CNN] Asia’s Pollution Super-Cloud 2008.11.13” (short video) – there is a giant smog cloud that covers half of asia, and makes low areas colder and higher elevations warmers. It temporarily stops us from feeling the full effects of global warming.

“[CNN] Radar data of UFOs on Larry King (2008)” (short video) – Either its a chinese/russian spy plane or aliens, one or the other.

Cspan Footage- “Ben Bernanke Doesn’t Remember where $500 Billion went” (short video) – We gave something like $30k for every citizen of new zealand to their central bank, but Ben doesn’t even remember.

“Operation Ajax: Iran and the CIA Coup in 1953” – British government owned most of british petroleum and then Iran cut off the oil, so they asked the CIA to over throw Iranian government. Sound conspiracy-ish but its actually well documented history.

“Edgar Mitchell on FoxNews – July 25th,2008” (short video) – Guy who has spent more time on the moon than any other human saids aliens are real and in contact with defense department. Maybe the radiation just got to his head, maybe not?

“Blowing Up Mountains: Destroying the Environment for Coal- VICE” – Doc about the horrible shit the coal industry does still to this day.

“Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2010)” – If you wanna make money on wallstreet get ready to open up the math and computer science books.

“Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human (Full BBC Documentary)” – The punk philosopher, the guy who is quoted as saying god is death, said there are no absolute truths, my favorite philosopher.

“David Icke: Human Race Get Off Your Knees (Full Lecture)” & “David Icke – Beyond The Cutting Edge (Full Lecture)” – This guy is either the smartest or craziest fucker on earth. Wild conspiracy theories and theories about the nature of reality. This guy think reptilians control the world and the moon is a space ship. And he sells millions of books about it.

“Hemp for Victory – 1942 USDA Full Film – Government Promotes Hemp” – apparently all the ropes on the ships during world war 2 were made out of marijuana, who knew?

“TOXIC – Brooklyn – VICE” (i think sound is delayed on this link best i could find) – worlds largest oil spill is trapped between the bed rock in brooklyn. Yet they are building extremely expensive condos on top of it, and some people even think the industrial look is trendy.

“BBC: Code Breakers Bletchley Parks lost Heroes” – All the math and science people that broke the nazi encryption machine basically were the ones that secretly won ww2, but it wasn’t declassified until the 80’s. Then they all went on to found the computer revolution including alan turing.

“Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC ‘Witness’, 2004)” – Aids may have started with the polio vaccine in africa, they used the make the vaccine inside a living monkey, sometimes they didn’t use the special monkeys that they were suppose to buy from german scientists. Western doctors get really angry at the thought that western medicine may have started the world disease epidemic in human history since malaria.

“Richard Feynman – Take the World from Another Point of View (PBS: NOVA – 1973)” – The guy is a genius and a genius at teaching, he talks about how new science is discovered.

“Phil Schneider – D.U.M.B.S (Underground Bases, Alien Greys, New World Order) HQ FULL LENGTH” – This is the craziest nonsense conspiracy video i have ever seen, worth a laugh. Basically this guy is some high up engineer who lost his hand in a battle with aliens, and there are secret bases underground where human vs aliens battle is taking place. Would make a good movie script.

“CIA Admits Using News To Manipulate the USA” – Classic video where CIA admits to manipulating media in congressional hearing.

” Atomic Anti-Christ- Occult NASA Secrets of Parsons & Oppenheimer” – Crazy stuff about how high up nasa scientists were into the occult.

“What Plants Talk About” & “The Secret Life of Plants” – about the crazy chemicals plants produce, the tricks that invasive species use. And overall the incredibly processes that occur between plants and nature.

“The History of Rome Engineering” &”Engineering an Empire – Egypt (History Channel Documentary) HD” – Ancient rome used as much water as modern day new york city, enough said. Haven’t watched the egypt one, but just found it and it looks just as good.

“Carl Sagan Cosmos” – Carl sagan approaches the history of science in a sort of spiritual scientific way that is different from anyone else. I would say Neil deGrasse Tyson comes close in a similar way. Also he says how the ancient greeks with pythagorus would worship the dodecahedron, forget where though.

“Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke – God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988)” – Haven’t watch it all, just found it while looking for a working cosmos link, but looks like a really interesting panel discussion with the people in the title.

“Man, Myth, Mathematician – Pythagoras of Samos – Genius” & “What the Ancients Knew – Greece” – It boggles my mind what the ancient greeks knew, and what they calculated without modern computers.

“A Brilliant Madness: A Mathematical Genius Decent into Madness” – Doc about John Nash, the guy who invented game theory, worked at the rand corporation during cold war. And the movie a beautiful mind was about him.

“The Hutchison Effect: Technical Interview with John Hutchison” – This guy is a modern day mad scientist, basically tesla reincarnated. Completely self taught electrical wizard. I guess all his equipment got confiscated by the time of this video.